CLAT Consortium

CLAT Consortium - The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is conducted by the consortium of National Law Universities, also known as CLAT consortium. The national-level law entrance exam, CLAT is a gateway for admissions to the 22 national law universities of India. CLAT consortium was established on August 19, 2017, with an aim to improve the system of legal education in India and ensure better management and coordination among all the national law universities. Since the inception of CLAT consortium, the national-level law entrance exam has become more organised, transparent and effective. To know more about CLAT consortium, exam modalities and others, read the complete article.

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What is the CLAT consortium?

To make the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) more effective and transparent and to better the legal education system in India, the 18 national law universities came together to form a body, Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) on August 19, 2017. In later years, 4 more national law universities have joined the consortium. Till date, all national law universities, except the National Law University Delhi, are part of the CLAT consortium.

CLAT consortium - Contact Information

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national-level law entrance exam conducted every year by the CLAT consortium. The law entrance exam is conducted for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 22 National Law Universities.

Candidates must note the acceptability of CLAT is beyond national law universities as more than 50 law colleges consisting of both government and private institutions accept the CLAT scores for admissions into law courses.

CLAT consortium - Participating members

At present, there are 22 national law universities that are participating members of CLAT consortium. The names of all NLUs are mentioned in the table below.

This year, the consortium has postponed CLAT 2020 from May 10 to May 31 in view of the COVID-19 outbreak. The entrance exam will be conducted in offline mode, with an updated CLAT exam pattern 2020. During the screening process, candidates will be tested for their knowledge of different subjects like Legal aptitude, English language, Mathematics, Current affairs and General knowledge.

As of 2020, there is no upper age limit for CLAT examination and any candidate that has finished their 10+2 with a minimum 45% aggregate score.

For AILET, assuming one is applying for UG degree, there is no upper age limit either. A candidate that has finished their 10+2 for a recognised board with a minimum 50% aggregate score can appear for this examination.

In order to learn more about the eligibility criteria of these examinations, click on the link below:-

You can check the sample papers at the official page:
https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2020/ug-sample-questions.html
and for the mock test, login to the official website
https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2020/
with your login credentials and you will be routed to the mock test.